Max Payne 3’s Launch Trailer Is A Week Early

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Maybe the launch trailer arrived before the game because Max Payne 3, like it’s titular bearded/cleanshaven renegade cop/angry vest, is currently diving toward its release date in slow motion. It really wants to be on your hard drive, honest it does, but it wants to arrive in style and preferably while shooting sixteen guns simultaneously into every other game you have installed in order to make room for itself. Whatever the case, the video should be filed under ‘portentous’ and ‘containing admirable discussions of the nature of healing and time’.

I can’t seem to write anything about Max Payne 3 without pointing and laughing. That shouldn’t hide the fact that I’m giddily excited about it.

I guess it wouldn’t be Max Payne without brooding, though “I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright.” does seem to wrap up this whole wife thing quite neatly. I hope they don’t bring that back again.

At first I wanted to skip this one purely out of respect for the previous game, especially with the ending from the hardest difficulty. But now I’m okay with accepting this game as semi-canon, a what-if story. Whatever false mental constructs I have to create, I’m going to have this cake and shoot the hell out of it too. Euphoria technology in slow-motion, in a dedicated shooter? OMG yes.

Can someone explain to me the logic behind launching Max Payne 3 on the same day as Diablo 3?

I’m genuinely interested in knowing the decision making process inside a company. E.g. is this strategic somehow? is it hard to change the release date once they found out D3 was launching at the same time? Or maybe they just figure the games are different enough that it just doesn’t matter.

Personally, I would have bought Max Payne if D3 weren’t coming out. If Max Payne came out TODAY, I’d buy it tonight and play the hell out of it. But because it comes out on 5/15, I won’t play it until next quarter probably.

That trailer kind of sucked to be honest. Terrible writing and dialog. I probably could not write any better, but still… come on Rockstar. I was more impressed by GTA5’s teaser trailer! There’s still a 100% chance I’ll buy this game once Diablo 3 warrants a secondary/back-up game.

I didn’t say Diablo 3 had good writing or dialog. That wasn’t my statement. But for a company that prides itself on good writing and dialog to woo the player with, is a minor letdown to hear the words they chose to put in the release trailer. Example: Two type of people in this world: One building future, the other rebuilding past. But, they immediately contradict this statement by saying he’s stuck inbetween?

Time moves forwards… nothing changes. Really? That’s the tag line the choose to finish with?

I’m just saying this release trailer did nothing for me. The in-game footage of the physics model, visuals and the Rockstar name already sold me the game. I’m able to have an opinion, and in my opinion… the video kinda stunk.

I think it’s only going to cause a shitstorm if absolutely everybody in the game calls you a faggot, a la Arkham City’s Bitchgate. If it’s just a random bit of dialogue spoken by two or three random mooks before they mysteriously sprout bullet holes I doubt anyone will care.

When was Max ever the sort of person who dealt in “The way I see it there’s two kinds of people…” crap? Granted, it’s been long since I played either game, but nothing he said in that trailer sounded like Max Payne.

They did make their own music, an extraordinary amount of it, there was even a preview of a new recording of the main theme they set out to fansites a month back.

Also I agree, all the dialogue revealed from previews, impressions and footage paints him quite differently (though there are obvious commonalities broadly) from the previous games, away from an overly-melodramatic, extremely cheesy action hero of the first game and a ultra-contrived brooding rendition in the second to a more sincerely lost and believable individual coping with tragedy, past, present and future, addiction and emotional entropy with a superior sense of dark humour than either previous game managed.